What changes occur when an infant and subsequently child first realize that they are "different" than "you." What might be missing (neurophysiologically) in some autistic spectrum individuals when they refer to themselves as "you"?
So also i vol ed in autism is the digestive system, sensory systems including olfaction, language, decision making, sleep-wakefuless, motor function etc. as well as balance & coordination. So perhaps it is less a vestibular deficit that we should be talking about and more a function of nervous system connectivities.
Except when the symptom picture looks like celiac disease and yes taste is a sensory function, which is impaired in most autistics. If so many systems are involved then one would imagine that there was something central to all of it and labyrinthine mechanisms are not it - but part of something underneath it all. But, back to my original question which was not about autistics but all of us. What neurophysiological changes are associated with the emergence of self-identity, if any? Does body image à la Henry Head have anything to do with this?
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